Kathmandu. Nepali pickles are becoming popular in foreign markets. Every year, Nepal has been exporting pickles worth crores of rupees. In the first three months of the current fiscal year 2083/084, pickles worth 79.999 thousand rupees were exported from Nepal in the public data of the Customs Department.
In the same period of the previous year, pickles worth 42.11 million rupees were imported from Nepal. Looking at the data for the first three months of this year, it can be assumed that the demand for Nepali pickles in the foreign market has doubled.
Nepal has exported pickles to Japan, America, Australia, Korea, Belgium and Hong Kong.
Nepalese pickle is the most exported to Japan. Japan has exported pickles worth Rs 34 lakh 61 thousand in three months.
Similarly, pickles worth 1 crore 38 lakh 39 thousand rupees have been exported to Korea. According to the customs department, exports worth 16.9 million rupees to Australia have been exported, while pickles worth 1.1 million 13 thousand rupees have been exported to America.